Former Shop // updated 2001
Main Street, U.S.A. · Magic Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Former Shop · the memorial record
Also known as The Greenhouse Flower Shop, Main Street Flower Market, Flower Market.
This shop is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
◆ Most recent chapter
The remainder of West Center Street was filled in by the Emporium's second expansion, uniting the storefronts into one continuous store and erasing the former flower-market side street entirely.
Closed as the first West Center Street shop absorbed by the Emporium's initial expansion, 13 years after the park opened; the retail flower operation ended, though the storefront facade remained in place until the 2001 expansion.
Opened with Magic Kingdom as the Greenhouse Flower Shop, a flower shop on West Center Street off the west side of Main Street, U.S.A., selling real and silk flowers, plants, topiaries, and decorative pottery, with an open-air flower-market atmosphere spilling into the side street.
Doubled as a popular photo spot, dressed with benches, flower wagons, and props; offered a plant-sitting service in which purchased silk flowers were held in lockers under the train station and real flowers and topiaries were kept at the TTC kennel until pickup.
Per the documented record, Greenhouse / Flower Market at Magic Kingdom opened on Oct 1, 1971.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Greenhouse / Flower Market is dated 1984: Closed as the first West Center Street shop absorbed by the Emporium's initial expansion, 13 years after the park opened; the retail flower operation ended, though the storefront facade remained in place until the 2001 expansion.
The latest documented change (documented 2001): The remainder of West Center Street was filled in by the Emporium's second expansion, uniting the storefronts into one continuous store and erasing the former flower-market side street entirely.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1971 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.
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